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Black innovators play a critical role in the history of creating and developing of the many games and components that built the gaming industry.

Ed Smith, computer and video games pioneer, with his Imagination Machine in 1981 Jerry Lawson led the invention of cartridges, Ed Smith made a hybrid console/PC, and designer Muriel Tramis won France’s highest honour for bringing history into play. How many more names are forgotten? Wed 5 May 2021 04.30 EDT Last modified on Tue 11 May 2021 09.02 EDT In the 1970s, in the fledgling days of the video games industry, an engineer named Gerald “Jerry” Lawson designed one of the earliest game consoles, the Channel F, and also led the team that invented the game cartridge, a defining i...